We talked about the ANT RSS video aggregator not so long ago as being one of a proliferation of new tools to handle the advent of social multimedia. With major portal players Google and Yahoo now offering search tools to cater to rich media, and with Google and Ourmedia offering free video hosting services, the stage is set to produce, distribute, find and share rich media content. With the release today of FireANT (nee ANT) for the Windows platform, the video RSS aggregator also adds support for automatic syncing with the Sony PlayStation Portable, creating what is essentially the equivalent of podcasting for video. The FireANT/PSP combination wins in the same way the iPod/iTunes combination did to make social audio convenient enough to pay attention to in our busy, mobile lives — one click and you're walking out the door with a fresh batch of video content prepared by videobloggers. Next, we need to automate the process of extracting good metadata from rich media in order to make it as convenient, searchable, browseable, and taggable as social text. Google — I have my eyes on you.
FireANT public beta brings videocasting to portable devices
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(Page 1)2. Why am I not the least bit surprised? :)
Speaking of social TV, Tom Coates had some fun ideas about a social set-top box:
http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2005/03/social_software_for_settop_boxes.shtml
Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by barb dybwad









1. spooky... i was composing a post this evening that asks the question: where is my TiVo social network? where is my generic 'what are my friends watching on their PVRs' social networking service? i look at the Google and Yahoo video search screens and i draw a blank... i also wish i knew what my friends who swear they don't watch TV are watching on TV without having to ask them, so that i can record what they're not watching on my DVR and probably not watch it either! (;
Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by judith